Deirdre Mulrooney

Lucia Joyce: FULL CAPACITY at Bloomsday Film Festival 2022
2022-06-11 16:00 - 17:30 UTC | Irish FIlm Institute, Eustace Street, Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
“Lucia Joyce: FULL CAPACITY” , starring Evanna Lynch will feature in Bloomsday Film Festival 2022 in “Brief Encounters: New Joycean Shorts” at the Irish Film Institute on June 11th at 4pm.

"Ulysses in the World" Symposium at Georgetown University
2022-09-10 | Georgetown University, Washington DC, Washington DC, United States
I am delighted to be invited to contribute to a panel discussion on James Joyce and Dance alongside Dr. Michelle Clayton of Browne University, and choreographer Liz Roche, after the world premiere of Liz’s dance production “Yes and Yes”, inspired by Ulysses at Solas Nua, Washington DC, on September 9th. This day long symposium features an impressive line-up of the world’s top Joyceans, and I am looking forward to the entire day’s discussions, as well as exploring Washington DC, where I have not been since I was 12 years old. We stopped over on a family road trip from Toronto to Disneyland, Florida, fadó fadó, and have some Super 8 film footage of us outside the Whitehouse gates, which I may root out and share with you!
Joyce and Dance! On top of my ongoing research into and reclamation of Lucia Joyce’s dance career, after reading Ulysses with #Ulysses80, I am really looking forward to delving further into this topic.

Saint Lucia's Day Event
2022-12-13 19:00 - 20:30 | James Joyce Centre, North Great George’s Street, Dublin 1, North Great George's Street, Dublin, Ireland
“Come and See Me, I’m a Crossword Puzzle” rehearsal with Kathleen Warner Yeates and Lucia Kickham, November 4th, 2022
In “Come and See Me, I’m a Crossword Puzzle” we mark the 40th anniversary of Lucia Joyce’s December 1982 death on the eve of her Saint’s day, in Northampton, England. In the Julian calendar, Saint Lucia’s day coincided with the Winter Solstice. Join our Saint Lucia’s Day procession celebrating light and love in the dark heart of winter as, anchored by verbatim text, we highlight Lucia’s overlooked creativity, and artistic achievements. Add your candle to the annual Joyce family Saint Lucia’s Day ritual, in honour of our misunderstood artistic ancestor, Lucia Anna Joyce. Through dance, discussion, theatre and exhibition, Deirdre Mulrooney has created a beautiful evening to celebrate Lucia Joyce with performances by dancer Lucia Kickham and actors Kathleen Warner Yeates, Darina Gallagher, and the voice of David Herlihy.
The event is part supported by an Arts Council Agility Award.
Thanks to Aoife Carey, Kathleen Warner Yeates, Darina Gallagher and the team at the James Joyce Centre, Philip Sicker, Fritz Senn, Alison Fraser of University at Buffalo Special Collections, Caitríona Yeats, National Library of Ireland, University of Tulsa, Conor Linehan, Megan Kennedy, Evanna Lynch, Claire Garvey, and Seán Sweeney.
Date: December 13 2022
Time: 7pm
Tickets: Free via eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/come-and-see-me-im-a-crossword-puzzle-tickets-478018615547
Supported by an Arts Council Agility Award, and the James Joyce Centre.

Family Ties & Hidden Histories event at EPIC Museum
2023-02-23 18:00 - 19:00 | EPIC Emigration Museum, Custom House Quay, Dublin 1, Ireland
The “Photo Album of the Irish: Canada” exhibition at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum celebrates the ordinary and extraordinary histories of Canadians with Irish heritage across generations, reflected in their family photo albums. Beginning in February 2019, the Photo Museum Ireland team worked with families across Canada to record, preserve and share diverse social histories, revealing details that official histories can often overlook. It includes images from the 1860s right up to the present, giving an authentic view of diverse Irish emigrant experiences across Canada. Collectively, the photographs reveal the stories people chose to remember and celebrate in their own lives.
We will be joined by two notable speakers on the night, Dr Orla Fitzpatrick and Dr Deirdre Mulrooney. Dr Fitzpatrick will discuss the role photo albums play in providing fascinating insights into our private and public histories – revealing details about how people lived and worked that official histories often overlook while Dr Mulrooney will give an insight into her fascinating family history as depicted in the Photo Album of Irish: Canada exhibition.
Our lecture is presented in partnership with Photo Museum Ireland.
Booking is essential as places are limited. Attendees will also be entered into a draw to win a signed copy of the ‘Photo Album of the Irish: Canada Edition’ publication.
Tickets available via Eventbrite.
About the speakers:
Dr Orla Fitzpatrick
Orla Fitzpatrick is one of Ireland’s leading photo historians. She holds a PhD on the topic of the Irish photographic book, modernity and modernism, 1922-1949, from Ulster University (2016). She teaches photographic history at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and is currently undertaking a Post-Doctoral research on the Border Studies programme at TCD. Her post doc is part of the North-South Research Programme supported by the HEA, DFHERIS and the Shared Island Fund. She is currently on sabbatical from her role as the Head Librarian at the National Museum of Ireland. She has published widely on photography – her most recent publication is Lost Ireland published by Pavilion in 2021 She is a recipient of the 2021 Peter E. Palmquist memorial research for grant women in photography.
Dr Deirdre Mulrooney
Dr Deirdre Mulrooney is a documentary film-maker; author and dance historian. Deirdre will give an insight into her fascinating family history.
After they married in the late 1960s, Deirdre’s Limerick parents Mary and Paud Mulrooney moved to Toronto, Canada, where they had their children, and were primary school teachers. In the early 70s and 80s the family moved to live with the Ojibway and Cree people in Cat Lake, and Ogoki Post in northern Ontario where they ran the local schools at a critical period of transition from the Residential school system to more enlightened native community-run schools. Deirdre’s family album photographs and her own film “TRUE NORTH” (first shown in 2017), offer a unique representation of the Mulrooney family’s Irish-Canadian experience.
In 2008 Deirdre made a BAI-funded radio documentary “Ogoki – Call of the Wild” which is available to listen to here: https://www.mixcloud.com/deirdre-mulrooney/ogoki-call-of-the-wild-by-deirdre-mulrooney/

Ranelagh Arts Festival Selected Scene Readings: "Brancusi Bird"
2023-05-13 | Ranelagh Arts Festival, 6 Ranelagh Road, Dublin 6, Dublin, Ireland
Deirdre’s new play “Brancusi Bird” will get selected scene readings,
alongside three other plays, on Saturday May 13th.
More details to follow!
